A month after the tornado, students returned to classes, but not in their damaged school. Instead, they finished the 2011-2012 school year in a makeshift facility in an industrial building ten miles away.

Teachers were allowed to come back into the building for planning on August 2, five months to the day from the tornado’s devastation.

The school district has scheduled a community open house for Sunday.

School principal Troy Albert said, “It's just going to be a really emotional setting, I think. I think people will be glad at what they see."

In the video above, you’ll see some of the damage to the school, and the efforts to rebuild.

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